Dikhyaa Mohanty 
At the Tokyo Olympics athletes’ village, a person has been tested positive for Covid-19 as informed by the organisers while adding the concerns about the infections at the games which will begin next week.
Masa Takaya, spokesman for the Tokyo organising committee stated that there was one person in the Village and that was the very first case in the Village that was reported during the screening test. However, he has not revealed the person’s nationality, citing privacy concerns.
Due to the global pandemic the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, postponed for a year and is being held mostly without spectators and under tight quarantine rules.
On Friday, a member of the Nigerian Olympics delegation who tested positive for the coronavirus at Narita airport has been admitted to a hospital. The person, in their 60s, had only light symptoms but was hospitalised because of their advanced age and pre-existing conditions. It was the first Covid-19 hospitalisation of an Olympics-related visitor.
Several Covid-19 cases have emerged involving athletes and others involved with the Games, which start July 23, even as infections spread in Tokyo and experts warn worse may lie ahead.
The Olympics and Paralympic involve 15,400 athletes and tens of thousands of others entering Japan, including media, broadcasters, officials, and judges and others. The official cost of the Tokyo Olympics is $15.4 billion, although government auditors have suggested it’s much larger. All but $6.7 billion in public money.
